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So much government data is temporal. Many already have strict archiving guidelines that mandate destroying certainly classes of documents after some number of y
by chefandy 4y ago
So much government data is temporal. Many already have strict archiving guidelines that mandate destroying certainly classes of documents after some number of years... many are single-digit. Nobody needs a copy of which city councilman voted to approve new speed bumps on Main St. 20 years ago, or your first 2 rejected applications for permits to remodel your bathroom. Most archivists are pretty aware of the problems with digital storage and know how to mitigate it.
- pasttense01 4y agoThere 87,576 governments in the U.S. [federal, state, county, city, township, school district, special purpose district] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_the_United... Only a very small percent have an archivist.
- chefandy 4y agoMany have policies informed by them. Even the town hall in the little 3k population town I grew up in had pretty standard data retention/destruction processes.